Cleaning device for tobacco-pipes and the like.



C. H. HAIG.

CLEANING DEVICE FOR TOBACCO PIPES AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1911.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

INVEN TOR.

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coLummA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON D. c.

llllilll lflE CHARLES H. HAIG, 01 NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLEANING DEVICE FOR TOBACCO-PIPES AND THE LIKE.

noenos Application filed December 7, 1911.

To all whom it may concern lie it known that l, CHARLES H. Hare, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful. Cleaning Device for Tobacco-Pipes and the like, of which the following is a specification, the same being a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices adapted for use primarily in cleaning the orifice or bore of tobacco pipes, although the same may be employed, if desired, to remove the oily secretion or sediment, or collected matter from the interior of cigar holders, etc., and it has for its object the provision of an apparatus of the kind set forth, simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and which is also efficient in practical use.

To attain the desired end, the invention consists in the construction, arrangement and operation of parts herein set forth.

ln order to enable my invention to be fully understood, it shall proceed to explain the same by reference to the drawings, illustrative of embodiments of the invention, which accompany and form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an appliance constructed according to my invention, 2 is a central longitudinal section of a pipe into which my cleaning device is shown as having been partially inserted, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another device in which the invention is embodied.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views.

Referring particularly by reference characters or symbols to the drawings, A denotes a slender bar which preferably consists of a flat or round wire or other suitable material, which slender bar is preferably flexible and made of such material as to have an inherent resilience or camber to give it sufficient body to perform the operation for which it is designed, the said slender bar being preferably long enough to extend through the stem or stick of the pipe into the pipe bowl.

The pipe bowl and stem terminal are preferably separable, although my device may be advantageously employed in cleaning Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. illl Serial No. 684,475.

pipes of other construction, and my invention. is adapted to be used both in cases where the pipe stem is st right and where it is curved, and also both in Pll'J'GS where the entire bore of the same is straight or in alinemcnt, and where different portions thereof are angularly arranged as regards each other, so as to constitute a passage or channel of an approximately li -shape. A bend is preferably made in the slender bar near the free end thereof, as at a, in order that the same may be adapted, as it were, to feel. its way into an angularly dis posed portion of the bore where such may occur, the flexibility of the wire being such that the said bend does not interfere in any manner with the slender bar being passed through a straight stem pipe. ll. ordinarily provide the free end a of the slender bar A with an enlarged or blunt point which may be formed in any suitable manner, and the same may consist of any suitable or desired means, as for example, preferably an open loop, as m or a solid head, as a The other extremity of the slender bar A is preferably constructed and arranged to be attached to an absorbent flexible fabric or material by any suitable or desired means, as, for example, preferably by means of an eyelet a or being wound around the said absorbent material, as at o. lhe absorbent flexible fabric or material I prefer to use ordinarily consists of a strand of cotton or other suitable textile substance ordinarily having a series of alternately raised and depressed portions as, for example, the porous material B preferably twisted, plaited, or braided in such a manner as to have a preferably uniform twist or spiral ridge or helix 6, the pitch of the same being ordinarily the same throughout the length of the strand, although if desired the flexible textile material may consist of a strand 13, illustrated in Fig. 3, having at suitable intervals or distances along its length portions larger in diameter than the remaining By introducing the free end of the flexible and preferably resilient slender bar into the stem of the pipe, etc., it will work its way up through the same and into and through the pipe bowl, and upon drawing the absorbent flexible textile material back and forth through the stem, all nicotin and collected matter will be absorbed and removed, and the smoke passage will be thoroughly cleaned, and the subsequent smoke will consequently be rendered less acrid, and therefore more pleasant and enjoyable.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of con struction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

hat I claim as my invention is As a new article of manufacture, a cleaning device of the class described comprising a resilient wire having guiding means near the outer end of the same and terminating forward of the guiding means in an enlarged blunt entering-point, the said wire extending backwardly from said guiding means and shaped to approximately conform to the bore of a pipe, and having a securing means located at the inner end of the wire, in combination with a fibrous material detachably engaged with the said se curing means and being of greater thickness than the wire, whereby the cleaning device may be introduced and pulled through the pipe in one direction.

In testimony of the foregoing specifica tion I do hereby sign the same in the city of New York, county and State of New York this second day of December, 1911.

CHARLES H. HAIG.

Witnesses:

Rois. SCHWARZ, J. ODELL FOWLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

